Janet Coleman, producer of WBAI Radio's "Cat Radio Cafe", will be starring in SAXOPHONE -- the story of Bob Feldman, New York based Jazz musician. The performance will take place January 15-17 at The Performing Garage, 33 Wooster Street, 7pm. $10 admission. Please come!

It is impossible to encapsulate a person's life.  Just as it is impossible to represent a city like New York.  What it is.  What it was.  SAXOPHONE attempts to do both. It is based on four years of interviews with New York based musician Bob Feldman. Director Brian Mendes met Bob every few weeks to talk about Bob's life. They talked about his days in the 1950's as a 19 year-old office boy at The New Yorker, where he spent the night shifts talking with a writer who showed him great compassion as he sorted through the sadness of his mother's death. That writer was J.D. Salinger. From The New Yorker, Bob went on to the New York Post and an editor who promised him unemployment pay if he would quit and become a musician. He quit. In the 60's through 80's he played with Charles Mingus, Sonny Simmons, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Micheline and countless others.  He was a fixture at Birdland.  He met Symphony Syd.  He traveled the world with his saxophone.  He moved to San Francisco in 1970 at the height of the Free Love movement.  Francis Ford Coppola found Bob playing saxophone in the street in San Francisco and cast him as a sax player in "The Conversation". Sam Shepard hired him to compose and perform the score in his play "Angel City". Bob continued working with Shepard on "Curse of the Starving Class," a project that brought him back home to a New York City that, like him, had undergone tremendous change. Gone were so many of the old faces.  As Bob says, " When I returned to NYC, I walked up Broadway one night. Birdland was a topless club. Those stores and restaurants were gone. But I found Pee Wee. He was a doorman, out in the cold night, hailing a cab for a couple leaving Hawai Kai, a restaurant that featured exotic drinks in glasses with little paper umbrellas. I found Lucky, with his scar, in a concierge uniform, sitting at his desk in a new high rise on 8th Ave."